Word: crimeds
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...shook hands. "The Dodgers won." Brown, in fact, had not watched the game, but he has mastered the knack of small talk. While his mostly black audience sipped cocktails and soft drinks and ate guacamole, Brown made his familiar pitch: "Campaigns are three things?taxes, jobs and crime. Taxes are going down, jobs are going up, and we have the most aggressive campaign against crime that we've had in a quarter-century...
...managed to convey a livelier image of the Governor. The Republican candidate, silver-haired Perry Duryea, is a millionaire Long Island lobsterman who has spent 18 years in the state assembly. He is attacking Carey for vetoing a bill to restore capital punishment, an issue that predominates in crime-plagued New York City. By mounting a phone operation that reaches some 400,000 city voters, mostly in Queens and The Bronx, Duryea hopes to reduce the usual huge Democratic majority and thus win the election...
...down from a 68% optimism rate when Carter took office. And when questioned about their worries, they said that the state of the economy was by far the most troublesome. Some 62% cited it as one of the national issues "that particularly concern you." Only 8% appeared worried about crime hi the streets and 2% thought relations with the Soviets were a problem. Concern about the economy has risen sharply during Carter's Administration. Only 42% cited the economy as a major worry hi March 1977, as compared with 62% today. Worry about crime in the streets, by contrast...
...come to the point where the crime has to occur before we can investigate it," Kelly added...
Kelly, who handed over his post as director of the FBI last February to Missouri Judge William Webster, said he favors wire--tapping as a means of preventing crime before it occurs, although it violates the privacy of the individual...